The Official Port City Community Church Blog

What an incredible way to start 2012. Two weeks of services in Leland are finished and there is so much more to come. We are thankful for what God is doing in the community of Leland and thankful for the volunteers who have been His hands and feet. This video was shot during our first service at PC3 Leland and gives you a glimpse at what our teams do each week in preparation for the day.

One thing we can never have enough of are people serving on our setup teams. Each week volunteers show up at 6:00am to unload trucks and trailers full of production equipment, signs, flooring, walls, bins of toys, and the list goes on. With a limited amount of time to get things in their place, each person is essential to the goal, Reaching People and Helping Them Walk With God. After three hours of preparation, the school doors are opened for people and families to come and be engaged and challenged in their walk. You never know who may come through the doors each week and when people’s lives have the chance to be changed, 6:00am doesn’t seem so early. If you want to jump in and be a part of reaching the community of Leland, please fill out our VOLUNTEER INTEREST FORM.

All I can say is “WOW!” God truly is amazing. After months of planning, praying, and countless steps of faith Port City Community Church started 2012 as a multi-site church today. It was awesome seeing the number of people coming to the new location in Leland to be a part of our opening Sunday. And what was mind blowing was the number of families that had never been to PC3 in Wilmington either. They had heard that we were going to be starting on January 8^th and decided that they wanted to check us out.

The number of stories that took place today are too many to count, but one story particularly that was special to me was one of the first of the day. As a team, we had decided that we would arrive at Belville Elementary between 5:30-5:40 in order to get a head start on our set up (originally slated for 6am). Getting there early, we had a jump start on unloading the trucks, but then quickly realized that the custodial staff from the school had not arrived yet. Doesn’t that happen to all of us though?

Over the past month the custodial staff of Belville Elementary has been great and have even shown up extra early some Sundays to let us in. They are an extraordinary group of men and women and we are fortunate to be working with them. The cool thing about this is that they did not arrive until about 6:20. Instead of panicking, I gathered all the volunteers together and we circled up in the dark parking lot.

I reminded them that we have had a few weeks of practice services and that everyone there knows what they are doing and that things are going to well. This is what it means to be a mobile church after all! Then we prayed together. Thanking God for slowing us down and giving us the opportunity to pray, right then and there in the parking lot for his continued favor and that this new location would impact Brunswick County for His purposes.

So, when the custodial staff arrived. I thanked them! The teams ran in, set up, and ended up being right on schedule. God is good, and He has a way of reminding you that He is in control.

Like I said, there were numerous stories throughout the day – but that one… that was a great one for me. I look forward to what God will continue to do through His church as we have positioned ourselves in Brunswick County to reach people and help them walk with Him.